Bulgaria and Greece to unite against Turkey and Macedonia

[Crn Volk]

in agriculture that is

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=147702

Bulgaria, Greece Must Unite against Macedonia, Turkey in Agriculture - Bulgarian Min
Business | February 9, 2013, Saturday

Bulgaria and Greece should team up to offer strong competition in the area of agriculture against non-EU neighbors Macedonia and Turkey, argued Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov.

Saturday Naydenov visited Greek livestock breeding exhibition Zootechnia in Thessaloniki.

"There is a competition pressure in agriculture on the part of Turkey and Macedonia, who are not part of the EU and their agriculture sectors can enjoy privileges not available to agriculture producers in the EU," said the Bulgarian minister in an interview for ANA-MPA.

"We are neighbors with Greece and our ambition is to be able to increase mutual exchange," stressed Naydenov.

The Bulgarian Agriculture Minister noted that Greek agriculture companies already have the established practice of using Bulgarian raw products, and suggested that this can be boosted.

He also called for an increased trade exchange of produce, with more Bulgarian grain products to be imported in Greece, and more Greek fruit and vegetables to be imported in Bulgaria.

In particular, Naydenov stressed that Bulgaria has still work to do in the absorption of EU subsidies in agriculture to achieve the full potential of the sector.

[Onur]

just a wishful thinking, but it`s empty.

Greece have no proper agriculture except olives. Also who wants to buy vegetables from Greece by using expensive Euro while it`s much cheaper and better quality in Macedonia and Turkey?

This is kinda laughable because i read several articles from web that Greece even buys tomatoes from Holland or France. Now Bulgarian minister says that he wants to buy agriculture products from Greece

[Archduke]

I'm so happy to hear this.

Bulgarians usualy avoid Turkish vegetables because of the low quality and non-natural look.

The market here has a lot of Turkish tomatoes, they usualy have the lowest prices and this obviously explains their awful look. On the other hand Bulgarian tomatoes are the best on the Balkans.

As for Macedonia - when these poor people stop projects such as Skopje 2014 and other stuff which hold the Macedonism alive, then they would manage to compete with their neighbours.